 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1857 - 374 pages
...far as eye could see ; The blinding mist came down and hid the land — And never home came she. " Oh, is it weed, or fish, or floating hair — A tress...never salmon yet that shone so fair, Among the stakes o' Dee." They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam,... | |
 | American essays - 1864 - 816 pages
...Salmon we are not so well informed ; but we have no doubt they often exclaimed one to another, — " Was never Salmon yet that shone so fair Among the stakes on Dee ! " Nor are the Boys backward in having a tolerably good opinion of their own goodness. " Never swear,... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Poetry - 1858 - 188 pages
...never home came she. ra. ' Oh ! is it weed, or fish, or floating hair — A tress of golden hair, A drowned maiden's hair Above the nets at sea ? Was...salmon yet that shone so fair Among the stakes on Dee.' IT. They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam, To her... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Poetry - 1858 - 188 pages
...never home came she. m. ' Oh ! is it weed, or fish, or floating hairA tress of golden hair, A drownSd maiden's hair Above the nets at sea ? Was never salmon yet that shone so fair Among the stakes on Dee.' They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam, To her grave... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...sand, As far as eye could see; The blinding mist came down and hid the landAnd never home came she. "Oh, is it weed, or fish, or floating hair — A tress o' golden hair, 0' drowned maiden's hair, Above the nets at sea? Was never salmon yet that shone so fair. Among the... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...And never home came she. " Oh ! is it weed, or fish, or floating hair — A tress of golden hair, A drowned maiden's hair, Above the nets at, sea ? Was...yet that shone so fair, Among the stakes on Dee." They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel, crawling foam, The cruel, hungry foam; To her... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1862 - 370 pages
...hitherto obtruded little or nothing of my own composition on my readers, I may be excused for inserting it here. I. " 0 Mary, go and call the cattle home, And...fish, or floating hair — A tress o' golden hair, . , ' 0' drowned maiden's hair. Above the nets at sea ? Was never salmon yet that shone so fair, Among... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 pages
...far as eye could see ; The blinding mist came down and hid the land — And never home came she. 3 Oh, is it weed, or fish, or floating hair ? — A...salmon yet that shone so fair Among the stakes on Dee. 4 They row'd her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam, To her... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1862 - 592 pages
...far as eye could see ; The blinding mist came down and hid the land — And never home came she. " Oh, is it weed, or fish, or floating hair — A tress...hair — O' drowned maiden's hair,. Above the nets at sea1 Was never salmon yet that shone so fair, Among the stakes on Dee." They rowed her in across the... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 pages
...along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as eye could see; Oh, is it weed, or fish, or floating hair ?— A tress...never salmon yet that shone so fair Among the stakes o' Dee. They row'd her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam,... | |
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Dee.' They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel, crawling foam, The cruel, hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea ; But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home, Across the sands o 
